About the environment.
1) Over the last 8 years, I have not seen a single person who was heavily drunk. Nowhere.
2) In the same 8 years, I don’t think I ever spoke to someone holding a cigarette. That includes cigars and weed, too.
3) Throughout my life, I don’t know anyone who got hooked on hard drugs personally, nor by “a friend pointing out a neighbor”. This includes those who got hooked on weed or other substances after we had lost touch.
4) No one who went to work in their field of study (systems engineer) after university.
5) I might be wrong here, but from my high school and university peers scattered around the world, it seems like none ended up in the USA. From the physics and math class, I can’t recall anyone who has left (though surely some have, I just don’t know), but from the university, more seem to have gone to Europe.
I’m sure that people from all three categories are somewhere nearby, they just seem to hide all the time.
If any of my classmates/groupmates are reading this post, correct me if I’m wrong; a bit of a reality check wouldn’t go amiss in my world of pink ponies and pooping butterflies.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 